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Finally an election in May decreed by the State authorities, determined the superiority of the H. U. E. R. A., and the A. F. of L. withdrew reluctantly, insisting that they would return this year to recapture the rest of the employees, whose union dues, incidentally, would amount to several thousand dollars a year...
...calibre he was considered several cuts above some of his recent predecessors; 2) The Kingmakers thought his selection would finally squelch the Legion's No. 1 Pretender and rebel, Detroit's Corporation Counsel Raymond J. Kelley. Last week Pretender Kelley and every other rival candidate withdrew without firing a word. With King Chadwick safely made, the serious minority at the convention then got down to their No. 2 problem: neutrality and national defense...
...minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters to vote for Candidate Camp. But these pats-on-the-head were to be Mr. Camp's and Franklin Roosevelt's last happy memories of this Georgia primary...
...Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls, to start an ominous carnival in San Francisco's shopping district...
Sheed & Ward, mindful of their Catholic public, withdrew Voltaire from British and U. S. circulation. A French Catholic firm, which had ready a translation of the book, held up publication. Meanwhile, Author Noyes sought to learn why the Holy Office thought Voltaire worthy of condemnation. He was informed that he would be told only if he would write the Holy Office a letter which, by implication, would acknowledge his errors. Unwilling to make any such blind recantation, Author Noyes did what Englishmen often do when highly irritated. He appealed to the London Times, which last fortnight printed the documents...